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New Processing Technique Reveals More About Our Cryosphere

Submitted by Fay Done on Thu, 26/05/2016 - 17:09

The adoption of the relatively new approach to processing altimetry data, known as swath altimetry, is transforming the outcome of altimetry studies on our cryosphere, including those within the CCI Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheet projects. The application of swath altimetry to CryoSat’s SARIn mode data importantly provides us with new information/insight into the topography of the Earth’s ice sheets which cannot be achieved using conventional altimetry processing techniques alone.

This technique and its use is explained in the Earth from Spacevideo below.

For additional information, please read the BBC’s article on the story.